Author Juan Miguel Martinez

Milwaukee County Supervisor for the 12th district Sylvia Ortiz-Velez recently proposed an ordinance that would lower the fine for marijuana possession in Milwaukee County to only $1. The proposal was made in th...

The snow has melted and springtime has arrived. Usually for Milwaukee, this means beautiful rainy days and the smell of blossoming flowers. For the south and north side of Milwaukee, it means all the trash that...

Tuesday was a big day for Milwaukee. First, the downtown portion of Old World Third Street was renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Second, Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, Milwaukee county supervisor of District 12, p...

Dookies (noun): North Side Milwaukee slang for a style of shoe created by Nike in 1982. Pairs come in low, mid, and high top. Typically solid white. Philadelphia. Twenty-eleven. I was at the Rocky stairs whe...

When you are impassioned about your culture and something that goes hand in hand with it—like, say, your city—you tend to work yourself to the brink of madness. You move around the clock, barely sleeping, and y...

The streets are filled with people, and our spirits are strong. We are in the midst of one of the largest civil rights demonstration this country has ever seen, and Milwaukee is certainly no slouch in that aren...